Any recent visits to these duty free stores?

Am on my way to France soon, & will be passing through LGA & BOS on my outbound, CDG & JFK on the return. Has anyone recently been through the duty free at any of these airports? Is so, any good Bourbon finds?

Re: Any recent visits to these duty free stores?

Plenty of decent scotches in the duty free sections at heathrow and charles de gaul but little in the way of bourbon when I last went through, You'll find various incarnations of JD, silver select single barrel etc. I'd expect to see woodford reserve and makers mark at best if i'm honest, the Bourbon market over here is very small.

The water was not fit to drink. To make it palatable, we had to add whiskey. By diligent effort, I learned to like it.
-- Winston Churchill

Re: Any recent visits to these duty free stores?

Which - at least to me - defies reason. The whole idea of a duty free INSIDE the U.S. is to incentivize outbound travelers to purchase the best products from the U.S. to bring to friends & family abroad.

Re: Any recent visits to these duty free stores?

Originally Posted by mrviognier

Which - at least to me - defies reason. The whole idea of a duty free INSIDE the U.S. is to incentivize outbound travelers to purchase the best products from the U.S. to bring to friends & family abroad.

I completely agree. For the most part I don't see a lot of bourbon or rye selection in duty free period. I usually just buy scotch because american whiskey selections are weak at best.

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I don't know about duty free any more. It used to be cheap enough to justify the hastle of having to drag a bottle with you through customs, etc Now the prices are more or less in line with what you can find outside the airport. I paid attention to this at Frankort A.M., Germany the last time I was there, in 2009. If you take the Metro into the city center you will find liquor and Cuban cigars selling right at the Hauptbahnhoff with prices identical to be found at the duty free in the flughaven. In fact there is a fantastic tobacconist right on ground level near the main entrance. I also checked duty free prices while crossing into Poland via autobahn at Gorlitz (Polish side) and found no real bargains either.